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Susana Barrios
From:Alex S <savulov@gmail.com>
Sent:Thursday, 46 PM
To:aaiken@anaheim.net; Thomas Gorham; Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Prep Charter School DEV2021 - 00218 - STOP!
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Dear Mayor Aiken, Mr. Gorham, and All!
In the beginning I didn't realize the enormous damage your institution and the city council is about to be making a
decision upon. But after reviewing the material available on the city's website, specifically here, I just got aware about
the scale, intensity and temporal horizon, this project's destruction of a neighborhood's quality of life are and will be.
The PRIVATE BUSINESS you're about to consider for approval to become reality under the pretense to be a "Prep School"
will disrupt the peace in this neighborhood and open the floodgates for a deluge of unruly and impatient parent drivers
which - as paying customers of this business - will behave accordingly, as we've seen at other ACTUAL schools in this
greater neighborhood on Sunkist, Wagner, S. East St and so on. The queues are going around all corners, there's no one
to direct traffic, there's a traffic congestion whenever students are being picked up due to STOP signs and heavily loaded
intersections.
I read the project summary and was appalled by its sarcasm in particular the circulation plan and the "projected"
statistics about how many vehicles are going to visit the site. The plan of this PRIVATE BUSINESS is to grow its
customership to about 500 in a short period of time (remember, people live here on decade scales) and "predicts" 250
cars will visit the site. But what it fails to report is the total of visits will be 500 (AM and PM together), and a mere 31
cars fit in the queue inside the premises of this PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Knowing what I know about PRIVATE BUSINESS, its main goal will be to increase revenue and profits for their investors.
As such, the following critically serious issues in regard to the peace in this neighborhood are real:
- The plan stipulates 10 personnel tasked with directing the traffic. This is NOT profitable and I cannot ever believe this
will be implemented. This is rather a big lie that the PRIVATE BUSINESS is promising in the "plan" to get the facilities built
and then they'll just do whatever they want. Hiring 10 resources to cover drop-off / pick-up is unprofitable and risky, and
the actual BUSINESS plan and investment would have never been approved by the investors.
- The circulation plan stipulates - vaguely on purpose - that there will be personnel monitoring adjacent streets, but
there's only mention of the Wagner/Marjan intersection. What about the unruly parents that will use the Rio Vista /
Lizbeth and the Rio Vista / Ames intersections to flood the streets while waiting for their offspring to come out? We've
seen this kind of parents waiting in their vehicles for the students at the nearby Gunn School, the queue is actually
around the corner on Wagner and it stretches for at least 200 yards. What will stop unruly driving parents from flooding
the S. Marjan, Lizbeth, Ames streets while waiting? Certainly not the non-existent PRIVATE BUSINESS' employees
"directing" traffic.
- Unruly drivers can only be put in their place by uniformed police officers. They will disregard anything else. I don't think
that the City of Anaheim can afford to allocate Law Enforcement resources to regulate traffic and unlawful parking and
use of residential areas for PRIVATE BUSINESS matters. No civilians be them employees of the school or else will be able
to dissuade and remove these drivers from the adjacent streets and this will become the new usual and normal.
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Please understand that this is a peaceful RESIDENTIAL AREA and no PRIVATE BUSINESS must be allowed to take over it.
There are enough BUSINESS ZONES that can be used for that, this here is not one of them. In time this PRIVATE
BUSINESS will become a real sore on the map and approving parts of your institution and council and parties involved in
the studies will have to BEAR RESPONSIBILITY AND SUPPORT THE CONSEQUENCES, including being removed from office,
voted out of it and maybe even being subjected to judicial investigation if anything (like the bogus statistics in the
"plan") is to be discovered being falsehoods.
For the sake of peace and quiet in this serene neighborhood of tax-paying hard-workers, please consider rejecting this
project. I will ask to be listened to in the upcoming hearing on Tuesday, Sep 12 2023, I'm currently not affiliated with
Mrs. Flores' efforts, but I will offer my services for I'm deeply concerned after I realized this is not an actual School, but a
"FOR PROFIT PRIVATE BUSINESS" with all what implies.
I just became passionate about this, and since I'm approaching my retirement, I may consider it's time to take on new
responsibilities including maybe running for office. What better place to start than this beautiful city of ours. My long
time project management skills are a perfect match and passion has always yielded results for my goals. Let that be
something that will be very constructive for the future.
Thanks/Best regards!
Alex Savulov
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